Chris Hedges / TruthdigMar 16, 2015
Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the Seattle City Council, is up for re-election, and the Establishment is determined to defeat her and the ideas she champions before they spread. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigMar 13, 2015
Fifty years have passed since Bloody Sunday, that seminal event in United States civil-rights history when African-Americans and their allies attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., demanding the right to vote. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigMar 5, 2015
Just a day after the news broke that the Justice Department had found evidence of racist practices within the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, the DOJ released a report claiming that, by its own estimation, Officer Darren Wilson was motivated by personal safety concerns when he shot and killed the unarmed teenager Michael Brown. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Bill Boyarsky / TruthdigMar 4, 2015
In her new book, reporter Jill Leovy tackles a subject usually ignored by progressives, black-on-black murders, and she explains how the U.S. criminal justice system too often treats them as not worth solving. In her new book, Jill Leovy tackles black-on-black murder, explaining how the criminal justice system too often treats it as unimportant. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigMar 4, 2015
The national discussion about race relations and police brutality that intensified last summer with the police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others is continuing with the news that a Department of Justice investigation has found evidence of racial bias within the Police Department in Ferguson, Missouri. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 18, 2015
Before Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, before Eric Garner was choked to death in New York and before the #BlackLivesMatter movement had even begun, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and countless other unarmed black men had been slain by police. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Jane Lazarre, TomDispatchFeb 16, 2015
The second and third times I fell in love with black bodies I became a black body, in a way I’d say without shame and some humor, for mine is dark tan called white. But I am the carrier, I am the body who carried them, released on a river of blood. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 14, 2015
Mayor Bill de Blasio has hit some bumps in recent months in his relationship with the New York City Police Force. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigDec 18, 2014
As an invigorated movement emerges against police killings of black men, a timely new documentary examines American law enforcement's negligence in the grisly killings of black women for over two and a half decades. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigDec 10, 2014
While Time magazine chose Ebola fighters as the 2014 "Person of the Year," the runners-up include the Ferguson protesters whose "refusal to let a life be forgotten turned a local shooting into a national movement." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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